Re: Touchscreen PCs back on Ebay

[Dave McLaughlin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

The cheapest touch screens I have come across are made by a Japanese
company called DMC Co Ltd. Trident Displays in the UK sell these. I got
a price for a 18.1" screen and this was approx £90 +VAT plus about £24
for the controller. Compare this to 3M Dynapro and any others and you
will find them to be very low cost. A 6.5" from 3M is around £70 for
the
touch screen alone. The DMC one was only about £23 + VAT.

Go to www.dmccoltd.com for more info and specs.

The controllers work great with Window drivers available.

By the way, current Mini-itx boards can only driver VGA input TFT
displays so this limits you to an off the shelf one which is not so easy
to add a touch screen to as the DMC ones are designed for building into
your own enclosures.

I use one on my 6.5" kitchen PC and it is faultless.


Dave...

Rob Mouser wrote:

> I'm very tempted by these :-)
> But before I dive in......
> They are quiet deep, I would need to build a false wall or enclosure
for
> them as all my internal walls are solid block (/me thinks about SWBO
> face as
> I diamond cut a huge hole in some walls :-)). Is their a UK, low cost
> source
> of touch screens, I was thinking along the lines of then powering them
> with
> a mini-itx board that way they would be shallower and quieter?
> ?????
> Rob






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